RMWP Learning and Enrichment Center
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The document outlines plans for the UAB Red Mountain Writing Project's Learning and Enrichment Center. The center aims to establish continuity between RMWP fellows and K-12 students in Birmingham through after-school tutoring and enrichment programs. The center will empower teachers and enrich students while providing data that RMWP concepts are effective. Details include potential locations, schedules, funding sources, examples of similar programs, and a vision statement.
RMWP Learning and Enrichment Center
- 1. + UAB Red Mountain Writing Project Learning and Enrichment Center empowering teachers, enriching students.
- 2. + What is our goal? The center will establish continuity between RMWP fellows and Birminghams youth. Why do we need this? We will empower teachers and enrich students. We will provide data that RMWP concepts work.
- 3. + A select group of K-12 students from all of the Birmingham metropolitan area. Teachers as mentors, who will build relationships and practice skills they learned as fellows.
- 4. + RMWP content and concepts Quality, experienced fellows as teachers 1-1 needs-based instruction Community outreach opportunities College campus experience
- 5. + Research increasingly shows the need for quality after school programs to close the achievement gap and prepare students for college and the workplace. Just one example, from the New York Times, Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma by Sara Rime, Ms. Wilson and her classmates ride the T over an hour after school to non-profit programs where they get extra help with tutoring, and with their college applications. They take free SAT prep classes at night.
- 6. + What we can do Can do descriptors According to Richard Rothstein, in Whose Problem is Poverty? educators have a unique responsibility to take on many social issues in order to make the world more just. Among these, include after school programs, Fund after school programs so that inner-city children spend fewer nonschool hours in dangerous environments and, instead, develop cultural, artistic, organizational, and athletic potential.
- 7. + 1. Start in Sterne Library in study carousel rooms 2. Other possibilities -UAB Buildings: School of Education, ArtPlay, New Arts Center -Rental spaces nearby: across from baseball field and next to Birmingham Wholesale, Greensprings, Suite 121, 2nd Avenue North, 21st Street -Red Mountain: (Trail, Park, Amphitheater, Building) site of old Discovery Place
- 8. + Projected Schedule Phase 1 (October 3-March 5, 2011) Time Time Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Seminars 3:30-4:25 (9am-12) Tutoring ELL ACT in Writing Reading Tutoring 3:30-4:25 Grade 5,6 Middle Or School AHSGE Tutoring in Elementary Photography Writing Spanish and Writing 4:30-5:25 Grade 7,8 Writing Enrichment Classes Math ACT ACT Service Writing Writing Projects 5:30-6:25 Review Class
- 9. + A few base teachers will be on-call for tutoring. Teachers would need to be available in the afternoons. Teachers need to be identified based on needs and grade levels. Overflow: Hire students from UAB who are in advanced education classes and have had background checks.
- 10. + Dedicate $3,000 to project to start Base rate pay for teachers: Possibly $15/ hour Charge to Parents: $20/ hour Sliding scale Allow volunteer hours as payment Or lead a service project for Saturday Seminar 20% of all funds go back to the project
- 11. + Brochures to all schools, application that includes a writing sample, start with Summer Camp and Writing with the Stars participants On UAB campus: fliers, posters, yard signs Free Social Media: facebook, twitter, youtube video, fellows blogs, schoology, wikis, nwp connect, rmwp website Newspapers: Black and White, Birmingham Weekly, UAB Reporter, Birmingham News TV News: Host a Fellows Fun-raiser to gain media attention Post a Once Upon A School project idea Apply for grants: Change Fund, Community Foundation, NWP, etc.
- 12. + Valencia 826/ Pirate Supply Company, Dave Eggers Desert Island Supply Company in Woodlawn, Chip Brantley Schletchty Center Stanford Redesign Center Ron Clark Academy Campus School at Boston College Center for Gifted Youth, John Hopkins University
- 13. + http://vimeo.com/3020821 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSF1gPBKrA
- 14. + http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4029382/RMWP_Youth_Center -Collaboration, Content, Technology -Learner-Centered, Writing Throughout the lesson, Learners Use Technology, Outcomes/Standards-based, Explicit Instruction, Research-Based, Collaboration -ADP Benchmarks: Language, Communication, Writing, Research, Logic, Information Text, Media, Literature, Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling -Writing across all content areas - Write to Learn, Learn to Write
- 15. + A Dream of RMWP fellows the generous risk-taker Adaptation of Mr. Choakumchild in Hard Times: Now what I want are generous risk-takers. Build a sense of trust and inquiry with these girls and boys. Generosity of spirit is the lynchpin of any civilization. Animate wonderment compelling us to risk pride and standing in order to learn propels all people forward. Plant nothing else, celebrate nothing else. Root out all hindrances whether human, or environmental that squelch the generous risk-taker. Then these children will be of service to community and country. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children. This is the principle on which I will bring up each student in my charge. Nourish the generous risk- taker.
- 16. + A New Birmingham Catalyst Academy Vision: The New Catalyst Academy will provide an option for students from all over Jefferson County to receive, the best education we can offer through the public schools. We value education as a means for students to accomplish any idea they can dream. We are centered in downtown Birmingham. We see this school as freedom. We create opportunity. We seek the higher roads, the more challenging path, and find the solution to all obstacles that arise. We believe.
- 17. + This we believe This We Believe... We believe in infinite possibility and incurable optimism. We believe each student can achieve and be successful. We believe in reading, we believe in opening minds. We believe that life is a journey, and we never stop learning, experiencing or questioning. We believe our school is a family and we treat each other as such. We believe in the power of the individual. We believe in the development of each students voice. We believe in Birmingham, the future, and the wealth we have from our diversity.
- 18. + RMWPs Learning and Enrichment Center